Life with Harmony
She’s little and hairy. She is one of the earth’s most efficient predators. She communicates by body language, some of it easily missed if you are not paying attention. She makes funny little noises. She’s […]
Author: Kathy Minicozzi
Kathy Minicozzi is an opera singer turned aspiring writer, who lives somewhere in New York City. In other words, she's weird, but harmless. She is the author of "Opera for People Who Don't Like It," in which she turns the world of opera and its performers upside down while, at the same time, making it understandable to non-opera lovers and making everyone laugh.
Flying Garbage and Wind Tunnels
I love my Bronx neighborhood. It is only a few stops on the IRT No. 1 train into Manhattan. A ride on one of the express busses will bring you right up to the Metropolitan […]
Kathy’s Points to Remember
It is advisable not to make the following resolutions, no matter how much fun they must be: 1. To make the Guinness Book of World Records for consecutive jaywalking. 2. To get a group of […]
How to Open a Christmas Present
Christmas will be here any day now. Well, actually, it will be here in three days, but it sounds more dramatic the way I say it. As a strict Christmas traditionalist, I feel that this […]
Christmas Shopping Made Hard
”I spent two minutes Just two minutes Two minutes shopping for your gift ….” Old Amazon . com TV Commercial I hate walking around shopping malls and schlepping stuff in bags. I hate big department […]
Fruitcake and Cilantro
It has come to my attention in recent days that there are those among us who are secret fruitcake lovers. Among these is our Great Fearless Leader, Donna Cavanagh. Of course, it makes me feel […]
The Ten Best Uses for an Unwanted Fruitcake
Judging from some of the reactions I have seen, the majority of the human race in the Western World either hates fruitcake or thinks it hates fruitcake. In the meantime, the giving of fruitcake is […]
Embarrassing Product Names
I had nothing better to do in the last couple of days, so I looked on the Internet for funny product names. Your imagination can soar to great heights or fall to great depths with […]
Catholic Moments
We Roman Catholics have our own set of “moments” that are peculiarly ours. 1. The moment you start to tell your sins in the confessional, and you forget every sin on your list except the […]